Socialism & Anti-imperialism in Mexico During the 1970s & 1980s
Widespread anti-imperialist mobilizations served as a pressure mechanism against the subservient and collaborationist policies of regional governments.
Widespread anti-imperialist mobilizations served as a pressure mechanism against the subservient and collaborationist policies of regional governments.
Decisions about Cuba, its present and its future, belong exclusively to its people, writes Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas; while we must firmly condemn the US government’s unilateral coercive measures against that sister nation.
The Mexico City collection center – located almost at the corner of Corregidora and Plaza de la Constitución – will remain open until February 22.
An interview with Daniela González López of Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de Los Pueblos.
“We Mexicans stand in solidarity with the Cuban people, we stand in solidarity with all the peoples that the empire wants to crush.”
“Access to energy is not a luxury: it is a basic condition to guarantee health services, education, water supply, food production and the functioning of daily life.”
For the Latin American left the meaning is clear: not sending to oil to Cuba will not be interpreted as realism or strategic prudence, but as an abandonment of a tradition that distinguished Mexico, even in the face of openly conservative governments of the past.
Part of Mexico’s 1938 oil nationalization was paid for with the sweat of the Cuban people, and in 1961, a headline appeared in the Mexican newspaper Hoja Revolucionaria: “Not sending oil to Cuba is betraying the oil expropriation.”
Solidarity protestors gathered outside of the former location of the Embassy of the United States on Reforma in Mexico City on Sunday, demanding that Mexico send oil to Cuba and expressing their disavowal of Trump’s recent assault on the island and its people.
On February 7th, a national march for Venezuela will be held to demand the release of Maduro and Flores, and marches or rallies will take place in the capitals of each state.